On Friday evening, the working-class neighborhoods above the bunker were shaken by around 80 tons of bombs that were detonated in a series of timed explosions, according to an Israeli military source cited by The Wall Street Journal.
The planning of an attack of that type had been going on for several months. The goal was to be able to reach down to an underground bunker by drilling down with the help of several timed bombs. The concrete discussions about killing Nasrallah, however, only began a few days before the attack, according to a person with insight.
Only hours before the meeting with several other people in Hezbollah's leadership, the Israeli intelligence service received information that it was going to take place.
We had real-time intelligence that Nasrallah was gathering with many senior terrorists, says Nadav Shoshani, spokesperson for the Israeli military, to the newspaper.
Representatives of the USA have stated that they were not informed in advance about the attack.
